After spending most of Saturday afternoon there with my five-year old daughter, I heartily second the Boston Globe‘s rave about how great Mass MoCA is for kids: Kidspace, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, may be the best organized, the best equipped, and the most ambitious space dedicated to children in […]
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In the wake of Gov. Romney’s effort to demonstrate his commitment to gender equality when he was governor of Massachusetts, I thought we might spare a moment for a woman who was certainly not in any of his “binders full of women” — our neighbor here in the Berkshires and former “acting” governor Jane Swift, […]
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Williams College has announced that it is moving ahead with a $22 million renovation of its athletic facilities at Weston Field, in time for the 2014 season. This major building project, like the ongoing effort to build a new library, had been put on hold by the financial crisis of 2008. And just worth noting, […]
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On the day of their one debate in the 413 area code, The Boston Globe this morning noted how tightly the Senate race between Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren has concentrated on the greater Boston market to maximize television exposure. The biggest losers in that calculation may be Western Massachusetts voters. Even as Governor […]
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The New York Times last week took a look at the Mohawk Trail, that stretch of Route 2 between North Adams and Greenfield that is one of the nation’s first scenic roads designed specifically with tourists in mind: This isn’t Route 66 (that came later). It’s not I-40, either. The distance between attractions here can […]
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For much of last month, between the end of the last Yankees-Sox series and the start of this one, I was in the sad and uncomfortable position of rooting against my own team. I and just about every other Sox fan had completely given up on the season months earlier, so it was just a […]
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